Poems

Search our extensive curated collection of over 10,000 poems by occasion, theme, and form, or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

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Title	Author	Year
The Death of the Old Year	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	1833
Sick4Sick	torrin a. greathouse	2022
The Road at My Door	W. B. Yeats	1970
We Two	H.D.	1924
Becoming Ghost	Cathy Linh Che	2018
On a Day, In the World	Brenda Hillman	2018
[Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle]	A. E. Housman	2017
Crows	Marilyn Nelson	2016
Binsey Poplars	Gerard Manley Hopkins	2016
What Changes	Naomi Shihab Nye	2015
A Winter Blue Jay	Sara Teasdale	2014
The Gift	Li-Young Lee	1986
The Tower	W. B. Yeats	1928
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World	Jane Hirshfield	1997
I Didn’t Apologize to the Well	Mahmoud Darwish	2007
Song on May Morning	John Milton	1645
To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth	Phillis Wheatley	1773
Wildflower	Stanley Plumly	1983
At the round earth's imagined corners (Holy Sonnet 7)	John Donne	1633
Stanzas in Meditation	Gertrude Stein	1994

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